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{{quote|''"If you know which one is Brooks and which one is Dunn ... you might be a redneck."''|[[Jeff Foxworthy]]}}
A long-lasting [[Country Music]] duo composed of Leon Eric "Kix" Brooks and Ronald Gene "Ronnie" Dunn, Brooks and Dunn is arguably ''the'' definitive country music duo. After several years as [[
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, the duo was no stranger to country music radio, racking up a total of twenty Number One hits and fifty chart singles overall. They were also a shoo-in for the Country Music Association's Duo of the Year award (winning it from 1992 through 2006), as well as an Entertainer of the Year award in 1996 after the smash "My Maria", which was also the biggest country hit of that year. The duo started to slip into more of a pop sound, maintaining the hits for the time being but losing its critical acclaim. Come 1999, the duo hit its first commercial low point, as the album ''Tight Rope'' produced only one big hit and disappointing sales. Montgomery Gentry — who was only ''two singles into its career'' at that point — got the 1999 Duo award at the Academy of Country Music.
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== Tropes present: ==
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: The central topic of "Neon Moon".
* [[Fake-Out Fade-Out]]: Occurs on "Indian Summer." It's a slow, wistful song about a schoolgirl who was impressed by a football player's skillful performance at a hometown game, and ended up sleeping with him, only to have her life ruined when he bragged about it to his friends afterwards. This is, of course, fatal to one's reputation in a small town, and she ended up having to drop out and move across the country to start over. At the end, the singer regretfully admits that he was the Jerk Jock and now, looking back on it, he wonders if things might have been different had he acted differently. Fade out... a perfect place to end. And then it jumps back in with a strong guitar slide and one last exultant rehash of the chorus, about how cool the whole experience was.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Once Brooks & Dunn got hot, the market was suddenly flooded with singer-songwriter duos who were paired willy-nilly by record execs. For all of the 1990s, it was a [[Foregone Conclusion]] that any award with "duo" in the name would automatically go to B & D. No duo posed a serious threat to Brooks & Dunn's fortunes until [[Sugarland]] got reduced to a duo and suddenly started having much more success.
* [[Garfunkel]]: Kix Brooks. He has sung lead on only ''six'' of the duo's 50 singles. The last single on which he sang lead, "South of Santa Fe" — back in ''1999'' — was supposedly withdrawn as a single because radio programmers were saying that they didn't want another Kix song. On the 44 other songs, his backing vocals are barely even audible (or in some cases, such as "Believe", nonexistant). Pretty much the only thing that saved Kix from being dead weight was the fact that he was the comparatively more energetic and outgoing performer of the two.
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